Month: July 2015

To continue the thread started with my earlier post on the ideal of equality, it seems extremely strange to me when people oppose that ideal. It just doesn’t make any sense given my worldview, though I suppose I can understand how it happens. It’s the same as the way that often people like the idea of competition, imagining how great it would be to be the best, when statistically they will almost certainly fall short.

I’ve been having a hard time cutting my fat percentage back again. I started to eat more to keep up with my Camp Gladiator workouts, since my performance had been disappointing for months while I had no fat left to burn. I was at around 7% body fat, and once I started eating more that went up to about 10%. I’ve been trying to cut back again, and making a higher percentage of it protein (I’m still a vegetarian), to get to a maintainable 8%, but have been having trouble getting under the 9% mark. It seems like my body wants to hang out around 9.5%, but I’m not really happy with how that looks on me.

Well, to begin with, we have to define “we.” Because if it’s one of the more obvious definitions, including everything about us, then we’re obviously not equal. We’re all different, and constantly changing. Of course we are. How could anyone believe we’re all equal? Well, without specifically discarding things from our definition of what we are in order to find something that can be considered “equal,” what are we, really? What is the core of each of us? What are we that doesn’t change?

Bungie last week announced their new expansion for Destiny, The Taken King, and in the process alienated another big chunk of their fanbase. The motivation for their behavior is obvious: to extract as much money as possible from paying customers in a desperate attempt to postpone the inevitable. But it’s getting to the point where even the most indoctrinated players are starting to feel exploited.